{"id":183015,"date":"2015-04-08T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/08\/megan-mcardle-gets-everything-wrong\/"},"modified":"2015-04-08T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T03:35:00","slug":"megan-mcardle-gets-everything-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/08\/megan-mcardle-gets-everything-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan McArdle Gets Everything Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have, on numerous occasions, noted how <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=mcardle&amp;max-results=20&amp;by-date=true\">the musing of Megan &#8220;Math is Hard&#8221; McArdle have at best a passing relationship to the facts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In yet another example, let me point you to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-mh-bloombergs-megan-mcardle-gets-social-security-almost-totally-wrong-20150408-column.html\">detailed and thoroughly amusing Fisking of her latest drivel on Social Security<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">With even mainstream Democrats coming to embrace the idea of expanding Social Security to help address our looming retirement crisis, it couldn&#8217;t be long before the pushback emerged from conservatives and Republicans. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Bloomberg&#8217;s libertarian economics columnist Megan McArdle was quick out of the box, with a column published Tuesday titled, &#8220;The Left Gets it Wrong About Social Security.&#8221; You should read it, because it&#8217;s rare to find so much sophistry, misunderstanding and misinformation about Social Security packed into one article. You can count McArdle&#8217;s disdain for retired people, seldom expressed so openly, as a dividend. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest.<\/p>\n<p>It methodically takes apart her assumptions, and shows how they have nothing to do with reality.<\/p>\n<p>Go read the rest of Michael Hiltzik&#8217;s article in the <i>LA Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have, on numerous occasions, noted how the musing of Megan &#8220;Math is Hard&#8221; McArdle have at best a passing relationship to the facts. In yet another example, let me point you to a detailed and thoroughly amusing Fisking of her latest drivel on Social Security: With even mainstream Democrats coming to embrace the idea &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1002,1051,1086,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-good-writing","category-hypocrisy","category-social-safety-net","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}